David Orr - ‘Earth in Mind’

‘We cannot know what sustainability means until we have decided what we intend to sustain and how we propose to do so. For some, sustainability means maintaining our present path of domination, only with greater efficiency’.

 This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from David Orr’s 1994 book ‘Earth in Mind’  (from part 4 - Destinations.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Orr

Paul Ehrlich

The main hope for changing humanity's present course may lie ... in the development of a world view drawn partly from ecological principles - in the so-called deep ecology movement.

 

Todays Green Thought comes from the American biologist Paul Ehrlich http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Ehrlich

Donella Meadows

"Once again I stopped listening to the news this week. "

Today’s Green Thought comes from the blog of the late Donella Meadows (1941 – 2001) http://www.sustainer.org/?page_id=90 , a pioneering American environmental scientist who is best known as lead author of the influential book The Limits to Growth, which made headlines around the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

Andrew McLaughlin - ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’

Once industrialism is viewed from a nonanthropocentric perspective, then it is obviously a horrendous crime against the rest of nature.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Andrew McLaughlin’s 1993 book ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’.

 

http://blogs.stuzog.com/dandeliontimes/recommended-reading/

 

John Muir - A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death...Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony.

 

This weeks Green Thoughts are taken from the writings of John Muir (1838 – 1914) a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir

 

Todays’ is taken from  Muir’s ‘A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf’, p:41-42

George Perkins Marsh - Man and Nature

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned into discords.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Man and Nature (1864) by George Perkins Marsh  (1801 – 1882), an American diplomat and philologist considered by some to be America's first environmentalist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Perkins_Marsh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_and_Nature

W B Yeats

Wherever men have tried to imagine a perfect life, they have imagined a place where men plough and sow and reap not a place where there are great wheels turning and great chimneys vomiting smoke.

Today’s Green Thought comes from a W B Yeats lecture in 1911 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_B_Yeats